Bad moon
Musk is very very dangerous.
Judd Legum at Popular Information:
There are 49 days until Election Day in the United States. Although the presidential race remains extremely close, Donald Trump and his allies have escalated their efforts to undermine the results.
In a post to Truth Social on Sunday morning, Trump falsely claimed that the United States Postal Service (USPS) “has admitted that it is a poorly run mess that is experiencing mail loss and delays at a level never seen before.” Trump asked, “how can we possibly be expected to allow or trust the U.S. Postal Service to run the 2024 Presidential Election?”
How can we possibly expect Trump to stop lying?
In addition to attacking mail-in voting, Trump has advanced broader claims that Democrats “want to cheat” in the 2024 election. In a September 7 Truth Social post, Trump pledged to prosecute and jail Democrats who repeat “the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election.” (In nearly 4 years since the 2020 election, Trump has produced no evidence of cheating.) Trump claimed that prosecuting “Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials” was the only way to ensure “this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.”
“Depravity” is not the right word there – he means “betrayal” or similar – but never mind.
Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2024 election are nothing new. He did the same thing in advance of the 2020 election. The difference is that, this time, he has the public support of wealthy tech billionaires.
Appearing on the All In podcast, billionaire investor Peter Theil asserted that if the presidential election “is going to be close,” then “I’m pretty sure [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] will win because they will cheat.” Theil claimed, without any evidence, that Democrats will “steal the ballots” to assure a Harris victory.
Of course Trump is the one who tried to steal the last election by force, but never mind.
H/t Tim Harris
He probably wanted to say “travesty of justice”, but his depraved (and decrepit*) mind betrayed him.
*Can a mind be decrepit? If not, mine is well on the way to, well, whatever.
Think this was part of Musk’s long game when he bought Twitter? Or was it more organic? Obviously the natcons were eager to bring him into the fold but I’m really not sure at all; Musk (ironically I know) didn’t seem to be big on nativism.
Travesty! That’s it! I knew there was a word but my brain was doing that “Hahaha not telling” thing brains like to do.
Musk and the long game – I don’t know. The reality is I find him too boring to research much. Very lazy of me.
Oh, yes, my brain does that all the time. Especially with names. It can be very embarrassing, like Seinfeld trying to remember his girlfriend’s name. “Hey… you.”
And this is from Steve Schmidt, a former Republican who worked on the G.W. Bush & John McCain campaigns, quoting another tweet of Musk’s:
“Why do they want to kill Donald Trump? And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.” (Musk)
Schmidt writes that Musk ‘subsequently deleted it due to the backlash, but it generated more than 30 million impressions on the platform.’
Musk also then tried to pass this off as a joke, saying that people didn’t understand the ‘context’. Where have we seen this kind of tactic before?
I am, again, not sorry to say this, but people should really take notice of Coel’s tactic of insinuation, of making what might appear on their face to be fairly harmless remarks, which he seeks to implant in people’s minds and raise doubts in them, but are, as Ophelia noted earlier, ‘dog-whistles’. The behaviour of Trump & Vance, and the people like Thiel & Musk who back them, is extraordinarily dangerous. They are actively seeking the destruction of democratic institutions.
And here is Laura Loomer on a little video of hers on X:
Laura Loomer: “I know that Kamala Harris sucked di*k to get where she is today… I’m not like her, okay? I don’t suck di*k to get to the top.”
Good people on both sides?
Justice would have to have moral agency to be depraved. The “best words” are worthless unless you use them properly and can comprehend their meaning.
The best word for Trump
Can we have a president who’s not illiterate please?
To use a favorite saying of the Christian right: How do you know? Were you there?
And even if it’s true, so what? Harris is intelligent, capable, and educated. If she had to use sex to get to the top, that would be the worst take home from this, not that she utilized whatever method she had. It’s like with Weinstein, everyone is saying how the casting couch is a known part of Hollywood, so what’s the big deal?
The big deal is that the minute someone sees a capable, intelligent, educated, and independent woman in a high position, they assume she only got there because of sex.
I see parallels between Elon Musk and Henry Ford.
Some genuine achievements in industry, combined with some very nasty political views.
@Tim
Coel’s not even on this thread, and you feel the need to attack him.
Look, Tim. Posting quotes out of context is a very common tactic of both left and right, and worth being aware of.
FWIW, I believe that Coel is more interested in recognizing Leftish propaganda than he is in brainwashing those of us without your insight into embracing the Right’s.
Lots of people actively seek the destruction of (some or all) democratic institutions. Yes, people on
both sides.* Same as it ever was, and ever will be.
The great thing about democratic institutions is that they’re pretty robust. Yes, we need eternal vigilance. But we don’t need scaremongering. We don’t need to reflexively assume the worst about the Other Side.
* Remember when you could get permabanned from Twitter for referring to a man as “him”?
Thank you, Lady Mondegreen. I don’t agree with you at all, I am afraid, but I take your point.
Fair enough, Tim.
Well also Coel’s obviously autistic and hero worships Elon Musk; I don’t think he’s quite as sinister as you think Tim… He does defend the indefensible, but that’s why you shouldn’t have non-fictional heroes.